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Exclusive Interview: “The Third Rule Of Time Travel” Author Philip Fracassi

 

Most time travel stories mine similar territories. People go to the past, people go to the future, and either way something gets screwed up or fixed or both.

But in Philip Fracassi’s new time travel science fiction thriller The Third Rule Of Time Travel (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) he puts a new spin on this chronological conundrum.

As he details in the following email interview, it’s the titular third rule — and the second, and the first — that really change what you can do when you travel as well as where and when you can do when you get there.

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Exclusive Interview: “Splinter Effect” Author Andrew Ludington

 

When we talk about going back in time, it’s usually to kill Hitler or invest in Apple early or to see Led Zeppelin play The Whiskey in 1969.

But in Andrew Ludington’s new time travel science fiction caper novel Splinter Effect (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the person going back isn’t a murderer, an investor, or a music fan. He’s a professional time traveling archeologist.

Which isn’t to say he’s always above board.

In the following email interview, Ludington discusses what inspired and influenced this sci-fi story, including his plans to send his main character on more trips.

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Exclusive Interview: “To Turn The Tide” Author S.M. Stirling

 

Plenty of people have written stories in which someone tries to stop World War II by using a time machine.

But in his time travel sci-fi adventure novel To Turn The Tide (hardcover, Kindle), author S.M. Stirling is instead trying to stop World War III, and other terrible things…and thinks sending a college professor and some students back to the time of the Roman Empire is how to do it.

In the following email interview, Stirling talks about what inspired and influenced this novel, as well as his plans for further adventures in the To Make The Darkness Light series.

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Exclusive Interview: “Dirty Water” Author Tom Kratman

 

When people talk about going back in time, it’s often to correct a mistake they or someone else made. But in Tom Kratman’s new urban fantasy flavored / sci-fi novel Dirty Water (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the main character is instead a grandfather just taking his kids on a field trip to see the world of his youth. In the following email interview, Kratman discusses what inspired and influenced this novel, as well as his plans for future fictional trips to the past.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Dyson File” Author Jacob Holo

 

For the first four books of the Gordian Division series of time travel sci-fi police procedural murder mystery whodunit adventure novels, author Jacob Holo collaborated with fellow writer David Weber. But for the fifth, The Dyson File (paperback, Kindle), Holo is flying solo. In the following email interview, Holo explains what inspired and influenced this new mystery, as well as why he wanted to go it alone this time around.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Weltall File” Co-Author Jacob Holo

 

With The Weltall File (hardcover, Kindle), writers David Weber and Jacob Holo are extending the sci-fi series the Gordian Division that they launched in 2019 with The Gordian Protocol, and continued a year and then three years later with The Valkyrie Protocol and The Janus File, respectfully. In the following email interview, Holo discusses what inspired and influenced this sci-fi police procedural, including their plans for future installments.

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Exclusive Interview: “Myriad” Author Joshua David Bellin

 

In Philip K. Dick’s 1956 novella The Minority Report, and the Steven Spielberg movie version of it, crimes are prevented by people who can see into the future. But in his time travel thriller Myriad (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Joshua David Bellin is taking a different approach to the justice system by letting people go back in time to undo crimes that have already been committed. In the following email interview, Bellin discusses what inspired and influenced this sci-fi story.

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Exclusive Interview: “Time Troopers” Co-Editor Christopher Ruocchio

 

While part of me wishes time travel was physically possible — if only so I could see Led Zeppelin at The Whiskey in January of 1969 — it’s probably best that it isn’t because you know not everyone would use it to see rock concerts they were too young to go to at the time. Some would weaponize it.

But while doing this may not be possible (thank god), it is still fun to read about. Say, in an anthology of time travel stories.

In the following email interview, writer and editor Christopher Ruocchio discusses Time Troopers (paperback, Kindle), a new collection of time travel-centric military sci-fi short stories he co-edited with frequent collaborator Hank Davis.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Paradox Hotel” Author Rob Hart

 

From robots to mobile phones to self-driving cars, science fiction stories have often predicted the future.

Which bodes well for the hospitality industry, since writer Rob Hart has just predicted time travel luxury hotels in his new romantic sci-fi novel The Paradox Hotel (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).

Well, except that — as he and I discuss in the following email interview about Paradox — this story starts with a murder…